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Identifier: pacificservicema1627paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Claremont substation, where the power coming in from Vaca-Dixon substation is steppeddown for distribution in the East Bay section But referring back to Mr. AverageCitizens well-shaded reading lamp,which was mentioned in the beginning ofthis narrative, donot imagine thatthe power prob-lem as relating tothis lamp hasbeen solved whenwe have reachedthe distributingsubstation. Manyintricate feedersare required andsmaller trans-formers for step-ping the powerdown to 110 or220 volts for theconsumers use.These lattertransformers areusually located onpole tops or inchambers beneaththe street. Whenone considers the diversified nature of the load which is fedfrom the substations it is easy to seethat the voltage or pressure on the
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Induction regulator installation at Station C, San Francisco Pacific Service Magazine 25 feeders is going to vary considerably asthe several portions of the load come off andon. If the pressure gets too high the bulb inMr. Average Citizens reading lamp maybe burnt out, or if the pressure gets too lowhis lamp will burn verydimly, either of whichcontingencies is certainlynot to be desired. Hap-pily, a device has beenperfected, called an in-duction regulator, whichautomatically maintainsthe voltage on the vari-ous feeders between cer-tain specified limits; thuscausing the reading lampbefore mentioned to burnsteadily and with suffi-cient brilliance for itsnatural life. The foregoing descrip-tion outlines very sketch-ily the various meansused in one particularcase to bring the powergenerated in the moun-tains down to the centersof population where it ismost useful. There aremany other angles to theproblem than those men-tioned, however. For in-stance, consider the longstretches of line com

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1924
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  • bookid:pacificservicema1627paci
  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company
  • booksubject:Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company
  • booksubject:Electric_utilities
  • booksubject:Electrical_engineering
  • booksubject:Public_utilities
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco___Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • bookleafnumber:31
  • bookcollection:americana
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